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Palliative Care: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve 24-hour Urgent Community Response services for people at the end of life.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
2 Mar 2026
Answer
3 Mar 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve 24-hour Urgent Community Response services for people at the end of life.

  2. 2 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to ensuring that people approaching the end of life receive high-quality, compassionate care whenever it is needed.Urgent community response (UCR) services play a key role in this. UCR provides a two-hour community-based respon...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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